My broken leg...

[John Bantin]

Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.

All my life I've survived unscathed (apart from a motorcycle broadside in 1976 - tib & fib). I've experienced a sinking ship the North Sea, jungle warfare in Borneo, free-fall parachuting, in a cage with an adult male gorilla, dives to 400-feet deep, prototype rebreathers, lost inside the wreck of the Umbria in port Sudan, even been carried off by tiger sharks twice - but this March I got a diving injury - an inguinal hernia from lifting another diver's steel doubles. That put me out-of-action until mid-June after being taken away in an ambulance, sobbing in pain. At least I found the benefits of clearing immigration at JFK in a wheelchair (You get pushed to the front of the line) but I had to put up with taunts from Bret Gilliam for a week at his house.

Be a patient patient. Time heals - but sometimes it's a lot of time.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Unfortunately finding the balance between pushing it enough and not too much is often difficult. Glad to see you are working through it.

 

[tbone1004]

@The Chairman wrong Tbone

I did talk with @karstdvr last night a bit and it sounds like the molt was a normal molt, but the live shrimp we saw was actually a grass shrimp which is doubly cool! shame we didn't bring a gopro with us

 

[Manatee Diver]

At least I found the benefits of clearing immigration at JFK in a wheelchair (You get pushed to the front of the line)...

One of the few advantages of being crippled, even at foreign airports I don't have to wait in that huge line.

 

[The Chairman]

Unfortunately finding the balance between pushing it enough and not too much is often difficult. Glad to see you are working through it.

No obvious atrophy, so I think I'm pushing it enough. A senior moment with my router last week injured three fingers on my right hand, so I stopped using the cane. I have to finish my zero-turn today, so I'll get in lots of "up and downs". The lawn is getting very shaggy and can't be put off much longer.

 

[michael-fisch]

A senior moment with my router last week injured three fingers on my right hand

What are you doing to yourself? the only thing worse than a router is running your hand through a joiner which leaves nothing healable. Do you need the supervision of a highschool shop teacher?

Michael

 

[The Chairman]

What are you doing to yourself? the only thing worse than a router is running your hand through a joiner which leaves nothing healable. Do you need the supervision of a highschool shop teacher?

Comments like this inhibit dialog. It's why it took me a week to share it, and now I wish I hadn't. The injuries were painful enough that they didn't need salty words. Sigh.

 

[michael-fisch]

I'm sorry, and I too have lost an arguement with a small table saw, but since then I adjust bits/blades with the tool unplugged, and use it only after I have thought out exactly what my hands are going to be doing. Wish that my old highschool shop teacher had been around to chew me out before I had a finger drawn into the saw.
Didn't lose the finger, but I lost all feeling in the tip of my left thumb and it was so preventable.

Hope you heal up without losing anything essential.

Michael

 

[The Chairman]

but since then

Pain is a great instructor. I've never used a table mounted router before and have a new found respect for them. I will be researching this further before I use it again. What you don't know can disfigure you and the forces inherent in any power tools are not obvious.

 

[Joneill]

Comments like this inhibit dialog. It's why it took me a week to share it, and now I wish I hadn't. The injuries were painful enough that they didn't need salty words. Sigh.

Silly me - I was wondering how you possibly injured yourself with a “router”